Citizens in Gardelegen Germany carry 1100 crosses for graves of Concentration camp victims at a camp near Gardelegen. Scenes from various concentration camps in Germany. A crowd around a liberated concentration camp building. Soldiers and officials enter through gates at numerous camps marked with "Arbeit Macht Frei" on gates. Liberated victims who are able smile and cheer. Liberated prisonsers grab food from a container. U.S. soldiers bring out bodies of gravely ill and emaciated men from barracks and torture areas Gaunt victims carried away in stretchers. A man carries an emaciated victim to a waiting vehicle. An injured man lying on the ground. Physicians examine physical torture evidence and provide medical aid to vicitims of Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Doctors examine a man, a woman, and several starving children and infant victims. (World War II period).
Dead bodies at the liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany during World War II. Two soldiers on the side of a rail car. Piles of dead bodies of prisoners in the rail cars who were suffocated to death. U.S. soldiers hauling a dead body from water. People watch. Dead bodies of Nazi atrocity victims piled up Majdanek and Ohrdruf where German captors had attempted to kill all remaining prisoners before liberation by the Allies. A face of a dead prisoner with one eye pierced. A barn in Gardelegen Germany where prisoners were herded in and then burned alive in what became known as the Gardelegen Massacre. Remains of bodies of prisoners in the barn. A horse carriage enters the gates of prison camp. Officials seen with a captured German guard or official of the Mauthausen camp. U.S. soldiers hold him at gunpoint. View of Josef Kramer, the captured Commandant of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Nazi German women guards and men guards and officials come out of various camp buildings and are marched away by Allied guards.
A Russian feature film depicts the meeting of American and Russian troops on the River Elbe in Germany. Re-enactment : Explosions in a German city. Men moving with belongings to get out of the town of Altenstadt. A large crowd of Germans fighting and stampeding to get into an evacuation ship to leave. Altenstadt in Germany before American and Russian troops arrive. The ship has 'Adolf Hitler' written on it. The ship prepares to leave the shore. A tank on fire falls into the river. Civilians rushing to get onto the ship. Russian tanks enter the city and move along the roads in the city. Houses on the sides of the roads. The ship moves away from the shore. Russian troops firing. Election campaigns in the Russian zones of the German city. A poster of a candidate and loud speakers on a vehicle. Trains loaded with people leave from Bahensteig and Altenstadt. The burning form of a leader. Wreckage of armored vehicles on the shore of the river. Russian tanks and troops on the shore of the River Elbe. (World War II period).
Prison at Nuremberg, north of the Palace of Justice, where Nazi prisoners are held during Nuremberg trials in 1946. Cell of Nazi Admiral Doenitz is seen, with his name over the prison cell door. Nazi Admirals, Karl Doenitz and Erich Raeder, during the war. Views of war crimes at sea, with burning ships in flames at night. American soldier looks into prison cell of Joachim von Ribbentrop. Von Ribbentrop boarding an airplane, during the war. A German American Bund rally in the United States at Madison Square Garden in 1939, with Patriotic image of George Washington and massed American flags. Americans giving Nazi salute as Fritz Kuhn speaks. Fight or scuffle on the stage of the meeting. American military guard places food into cell of Nazi Julius Streicher. View of Julius Streicher giving a speech. Street scenes of Jewish shops being vandalized and boycotted in Germany. Boycott of Jewish-owned stores in Germany including posters and paint labeling Jewish businesses, and a poster that says, "Die juden sind unser unglück" (which means "The Jews are our misfortune"). Emaciated and thin liberated Concentration camp inmates being deloused. American soldier looks into prison cell of Hermann Goering. View of Goering in civilian clothes, sitting with companions, before the war. The Graf Zeppelin airship in flight over New York City. Officer on board Zeppelin shown plotting a course from the bridge. Shadow of the zeppelin air ship cast over an ocean liner at sea. Prison guard opens a door and goes in. Prisoners file out of the building, ostensibly to face firing squad. Airplane landing at Japanese airfield and scenes of military staff and military gathering of Imperial Japanese forces in Tokyo Japan during World War 2. Japanese General staff in a meeting. A Japanese military leader during a surrender meeting in World War II.
German officials surrender at the end of World War II. American and Russian troops meet near the river Elbe in Torgau Germany. United States General Reinhardt meets Soviet Army General Rusakov. Representatives of the German Army, wearing civilian clothing, sign a surrender document at Allied Mediterranean Headquarters in Italy, yielding Italy and Austria. W.D. Morgan signs for the Allies, on behalf of Supreme Mediterranean Commander Alexander. Massive American Flag raised to cover the giant swastika symbol at outdoor stadium in Nuremberg. Then in a later shot, explosion is seen as the Nazi Swastika symbol is destroyed (blown-up) by American troops at the Zeppelinfeld stadium in Nuremberg, Germany.
United States troops in Germany during World War 2. Group of repatriated United States soldiers pose for a photograph. They are sitting on a fuselage of a German Me-262 jet airplane, at the "REIMAHG-A" underground aircraft factory on the Walpersberg sandstone mesa, near Kahla, in Thuringia, Germany. Some repatriated soldiers pose seated on a tank. In change of scene, a long line of German civilians is seen evacuating the area. The refugees carry household and personal belongings in wagons pulled by oxen. Closeup of one wagon with children riding atop it. German women walk beside the wagons. More views of the evacuating civilians. Some use bicycles to carry their goods. An old woman tries to budge a sitting goat to take him along with her. She succeeds and leads him away on a tether. More views of evacuating families with their wagons and animals.